Hi Heavywhale,
First, thanks to the letter of agreement that ALPA and management signed couple of years ago, the company can do what ever they want with AACS and mainline.
ALPA has agreed to give the guys in AACS "super seniority", have them upgraded before anyone in mainline, also agreed that if they were any furlough management did not have to furlough the guys in AACS but could furlough mainline first, bloody great isn't it!!!!!!!!
Now, regarding the last furlough, R.Roland felt that it would be fair to "share the pain" of mainline so he did agree initially to furlough 16 guys from AACS, but couple of weeks before the furlough things changed, he & management and good old ALPA decided to keep the 16 guys from AACS and to make mainile happy to give them the 28 capt positions that were created in Europe......
That meant that mainline HAD to furlough 16 more guys from THEIR seniority list!!!
Now how would you fell if you were one of those 16 ALPA crewmembers getting furlough after paying your dues (2%)????
For info, the STN base has double, ALL mainline crewmembers are at the bottom of the AACS seniority list, to be politicaly correct the 28 capts position will be given to mainline BUT for the next upgrades (if any) they will ALL be given to AACS.
Have a nice day....
